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Shaw in a pure salary dump?

good question. It's been a while. 2009 is last time I can recall specifically: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200908290.shtml But I had to have been back since then.

that's fairly common

this series is at wrigley

I don't think hendry was terrible, I know hendry was terrible.

If we want to sweep we will need to depend on an Andy macphailure of imagination by the enemy

You mean......? That's right. 1,822. Actually 1.6363636363636363636363636364

Just glad mark prior isn't here so we don't have to witness the twin towel drills

This is our 9 / 11

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Absolutely freaking not. Hendry sucked balls as a GM. He doesn't deserve credit for leaving some assets. Every team has some assets. Hendry screwed the pooch as GM. He inherited a big budget team with a farm system stacked with pitchers but no hitters (that he was responsible for building), his budget increased every year but he screwed the pooch because of his horrible philosophy and general meatheadedness.

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3rd picture looks identical to me, with the possible exception of angle of bat.

San Juan isn't that close to Philly. Hah, yeah, I haven't lived in Puerto Rico since 2008, Too lazy to update my profile Disco Stu doesn't advertise..., his whereabouts.

Yes, he was incompetent and Theo and Jed are both competent. But the argument at the time was that Theo and Co. should be able to field a competive team then and build toward now. While the delusions of putting together an immediate 90+ game winner thankfully died, the idea of going all in for the likes of Cespedes, Darvish (does he still exist) and Tanaka while still building a top farm system wasn't that far fetched. But also, while nobody can question Hendry's win now methods compromising the then future, was the baron farm system that Theo inherited and quickly spun into gold really the fault of Hendry, so much as Tim Wilken, who was very well respected. I know some of us joke about Hendry's willingness to sacrifice too prospects for junk, but other than Donaldson and Archer, both o whom were apart of trades that virtually everybody applauded at the time, and neither of whom could have been expected to become 2 of the game's elite as quickly as they did. But in terms of post-2003, did Hendry really give up that many top prospects so much as he didn't have many to begin with? And those he broke and/or flopped. And wouldn't that be more the fault of Wilken? Hendry didn't have win now methods or willingness to sacrifice top prospects for junk. Nor was his big problem that he spent too much money. Hendry sucked because he refused to believe that there was a different way to evaluate players and measure productivity than the way he knew from coaching high schoolers in the 80s.

Think there's a decent chance that one game is completely inconsequential in the end and it might not get played at all. Am I crazy or haven't they gone with "it'll get played at the end if it's meaningful" before? You are crazy but I believe that has also happened. Cubs do have an off day Monday, they probably go day/night on Friday.

Yes, he was incompetent and Theo and Jed are both competent.

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bananas are awesome as soon as the green is almost all gone all the way to the point when there's a few brown spots. Banana bread is also awesome but anything banana flavored sucks balls.

How perfect is it that it's raining on the east coast on the day rondon fan has to start the Cubs @ Phillies game thread. He probably assumes they won't bother playing.

Better record does not mean better team. What if two good teams beat up on three patsies and wild card team has one more win that another division winner? Do they truly deserve a higher seed? Divisions matter and they should. Then go to a balanced schedule You cannot do that. There is no reason to try. It ain't broke and it is pointless to constantly try to fix it. Cannot? They had a balanced schedule not long ago. When? Interleague play has existed since the 90s and there has been no such thing as a balanced schedule since that was introduced. It's an impossible endeavor and completely pointless. Every year there is some made up need to bring "fairness" to the schedule and all the solutions completely ignore the realities of the business of baseball. There isn't a problem and it does not require stupid solutions.

Win 6 and mission accomplished

Better record does not mean better team. What if two good teams beat up on three patsies and wild card team has one more win that another division winner? Do they truly deserve a higher seed? Divisions matter and they should. Then go to a balanced schedule You cannot do that. There is no reason to try. It ain't broke and it is pointless to constantly try to fix it.

Better record does not mean better team. What if two good teams beat up on three patsies and wild card team has one more win that another division winner? Do they truly deserve a higher seed? Divisions matter and they should.

But it's not just failing to sweep, it's losing that sweep in a game with a late lead that they had many more chances to put away.